What did John Irving mean by: No one could have fathomed what a life he’d led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind. - John Irving Novelist Copy
+ A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Irving, Memories, Writing, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn’t reading. Feraz Zeid, September 8, 2023December 26, 2023, John Irving, Reading, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ … but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Irving, Form, Human, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves. Feraz Zeid, August 12, 2023December 12, 2023, John Irving, Caricatures, Enough, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Irving, Suicide, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die. Feraz Zeid, June 29, 2023December 12, 2023, John Irving, Die, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. Feraz Zeid, November 15, 2022January 10, 2024, John Irving, Passion, Success, 0 - John Irving Novelist
+ …there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Irving, Safety, Viruses, 0 - John Irving Novelist
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia
